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[WilliamP]

I have never built a computer before. So I am green at this and would appreciate some help. I will list my components: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P MB, Intel E8500 processor,Zalman CNPS9700 cooler,Corsair CMPSU-650TX power supply,OCZ Reaper HPC4GB.memory,PNY-NVIDIA 9400GT video card,3 Seagate 160 GB SATA hard drives,Sony DRU-810A CD/DVD drive and a floppy drive. I put it all in an Antec 900 case. I have downloaded memtest86. First it says to clear the CMOS by following the manual. My GIGABYTE manual seems to say not to, unless you have instability.I went into the boot menu and set the computer to boot from the CD drive first. Then I went into MB Intelligent Tweaker and set the Ram timing to 5-5-5-18 and voltage to 2.1. I put in the memtest cd and and tried booting. It brought up a screen with a choice of 3 memtests . I tried 1 which was 3.5. It seems to recognize the memory and try to do something but it will reboot after about 5 seconds. I don't know what to do at this point.

 

[Malak]

You shouldn't be messing with timings whatsoever if you are just building a system. And why would you be running memtest if you just built it?

 

[nineball9]

You'll need "Memtest86 +" for that system though I doubt the older Memtest86 would cause the system to shutdown in 5 seconds.

It's a bit confusing - the original Memtest86 goes up to version 3.8 or so, but will not work correctly with newer systems such as yours. Another group continued on as Memtest86+ and got to around Version 2.11 before recently jumping to Version 4 to avoid confusion with the original Memtest!

Download Memtest86 +. Since you have a floppy drive, it's real easy to create a memtest floppy for testing. When I first build a system, the first thing I run is memtest.

You may want to peruse the OCZ forums for some ideas; I'm not familiar with that memory.

Good luck!

 

[tomt4535]

Are you using the 1066mhz or the 800mhz ocz reaper? If it is the 800mhz, that voltage is way to high. http://www.memtest.org/ download memtest from there and see what it does. Also, If you have never built a computer before, I suggest leaving the timings alone. They get set automatically by the SPD chip on the ram itself so you dont need to worry about it.